Astronomers have spotted rogue planet Cha 1107-7626 devouring six billion tonnes of gas and dust every second, a ...

Planets may begin forming much earlier than scientists once believed during the final stages of a star s birth, not afterward. This bold new model, backed by simulations from researchers at SwRI, ...

Just as Earth orbits the sun, most planets discovered beyond our solar system orbit a host star. But some are out there all ...

Dr Emma Whelan is using data from the James Webb Space Telescope to learn more about the formation of stars and planets. Since the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), we have been ...

"The results provide a rare, detailed look at how planet-forming chemistry operates in the extreme environments around brown dwarfs, potentially offering clues to the diversity of worlds beyond our ...

The “space dust” which helps to form the stars and planets around the cosmos is spongier than previously thought, a group of ...

Astronomers have spotted a free-floating ‘rogue’ planet, named Cha 1107-7626, that is going through a massive growth spurt, ...

When a star is born, it doesn’t emerge in isolation. Instead, it forms inside a large, chaotic cloud of gas and dust. Around it, a flat disk of spinning material takes shape. This protoplanetary disk ...

A recent artist's illustration depicts the planet Cha 1107-7626, situated approximately 620 light-years from Earth, released ...

A recent astronomical discovery has shaken long-held beliefs about how planets form. For decades, scientists thought that stars much smaller than our Sun couldn't form giant planets. That theory just ...

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has provided the first direct measurements of the chemical and physical ...

About 4. 6 billion years ago, the Solar System formed from a cloud of dust and gas collapsing in on itself due to gravity.